nikole9696

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by nikole9696 14d ago
I agree, before the age of enshittification, when I went to actual blogs, sometimes I did see ads worth my time. But these days most blogs I would visit are hosted on sites that just use ad farms, and the targeting is awful (which, hey, I a
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by nikole9696 14d ago
I have wondered why this happens for awhile now. I had no idea - I feel like if a product name matches exactly what I searched for, no ad should ever be ABOVE that match. It makes me a tad angry you guys have to pay to get this behavior.
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by nikole9696 14d ago
I have no idea why anyone would click on any ad anywhere other than by accident, not knowing if the link might take them to some malware site these days.
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by nikole9696 21d ago
I mean, anecdata, but after staring at a monitor from a chair all day, it really does my heart and brain good to go for a walk outside in my local preserve. I notice a big difference when I can't go for whatever reason (usually weather
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by nikole9696 23d ago
At least in my area, a lot of folks didn't trust the tap water, and more didn't trust the fountain to not be super germy, so fountains just didn't end up used. I noticed many shuttered during COVID then they never got turned
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by nikole9696 28d ago
I get that the participants are a particular set of people, which IMO means by definition any data gathered is skewed anyway to the types of people willing to do this manner of study, but I'm certainly not the only person who leaves st
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by nikole9696 28d ago
I'd be surprised if this wasn't the case for most social media apps. They're going for engagement since that's what makes the money for them, as the article mentions. I would be curious to see if this kind of study could
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by nikole9696 29d ago
Eh, for me it's not about love, it's about no other retailers carrying what I want, at a price point I'll pay, with an easy return policy and easy checkout. I'm willing to put up with a lot of crap to find that, apparent
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by nikole9696 29d ago
Cursor, which is now owned by Elon, who tried very hard to get all manner of data about citizens with his intrusions? I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this isn't a great idea. He'll use it to feed Grok. I'm
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by nikole9696 29d ago
Yeah, it's truly awful if you're looking for something specific. I tend to find things by finding something I don't want then clicking through 16 pages of "related to this item" ad nauseum. I find myself more often
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by nikole9696 1mo ago
"tradeoffs have to be made" is a great way to say that yes, you agree that instead of focusing on lowering health care costs, you think it's fine that people die because of them. I would posit that no treatment should be allo
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by nikole9696 1mo ago
Unfortunately, these days, most of us won't do that because there is a high likelihood it could incite violence.
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by nikole9696 1mo ago
"And therefore, someone must decide what claims are reasonable." Yes, that person is MY DOCTOR. There is no world in which it is reasonable that my health care team says I should have particular treatment, and insurance executives
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by nikole9696 1mo ago
No, mine are just bookmarks that I keep open because I'm too lazy to organize bookmarks into groups and always want this set open. For work, it's deep linked nonsense that isn't bookmarkable. Because corporate. Rarely, I&#x27
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by nikole9696 4mo ago
I'm in my 50s and all my friends and family hate AI. My parents in their 70s can't really comprehend it. They got used to search and want nothing to do with AI. Some company is trying to build an AI data center where they live, an
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by nikole9696 4mo ago
If I want AI, I'll use AI. If I want Search, I want Search. Give me the option. Then again I switched to DDG like, last year.
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by nikole9696 4mo ago
This actually reminds me of the MCP concept. Similar?
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by nikole9696 7mo ago
This may be regional but I just had pills. It was fine. My first one had that terrible salty liquid and I cannot stand the salt. I had a very hard time with it, despite adding some flavoring. I just can't drink salt water. So my second
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by nikole9696 7mo ago
Anecdata: I use Apple News+ for exactly this reason. I get many publications included, and some magazines, and over time it learns what stories I like and surfaces those more often.
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by nikole9696 8mo ago
Was going to reply this - I have Walmart Pay and it's my credit card. I'm supremely annoyed because Walmart Pay still rather sucks. I have to scan a QR code which opens the app, then approve it from there. It's not simple lik
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by nikole9696 8mo ago
Not the person you're replying to, but for me, everything I buy on Amazon is bought because I have no B&M retailers that sell it. Even my local B&M stores usually have vastly reduced stock compared to what they have online (loo
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by nikole9696 9mo ago
I used ChatGPT to find a bike for me. It asked good questions, recommended good results, linked me to options and the websites I needed to further research things. I don't do a lot of shopping though so this is one tiny example. If I w
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by nikole9696 9mo ago
I love this site - have you considered monetizing with like e-books or other offline offerings, if you don't already? Also, your traffic might not be counting those of us like myself who use an RSS feed (a la Feedly) - those links don&
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by nikole9696 10mo ago
Well 90% of my test code is AI generated, and we have a lot of tests. Also Cursor is really good at generating all my documentation. So depending on how we spin it, I could say at least half the code (often more if I'm spinning up new
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by nikole9696 11mo ago
I don't go camping. I have had exactly one thing in my life that I can recall that the zipper broke on it. I think it really depends on what people are buying, how rough they are with their clothing, and many other factors.
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by nikole9696 11mo ago
I don't have much trouble with zippers, but I had a jacket where it broke. I had a tailor put on a new one.
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by nikole9696 11mo ago
As a user, I love Spotify. I would never discover new music in my more esoteric genres without it, and I would definitely never own ALL the artists I listen to. I'm certainly not going back to having to rip my own mp3s; I don't ev
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Ex–Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Sacrifice Your WLB for Us to Compete with China(fortune.com)
5 points by nikole9696 1y ago|7 comments
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by nikole9696 1y ago
Ex–Google CEO Eric Schmidt: Competing with China’s grueling 12-hour workdays means sacrificing work-life balance
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by nikole9696 1y ago
Let me know when Siri can do even the most basic things using natural language. It can't even properly answer things like "hey siri, is apple juice already on my shopping list" or answer most questions that require a web sear

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